Senior Practitioner – Child Protection & Assessment Team (CPAT)

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an experienced Senior Practitioner within the Child protection and Assessment Team (CPAT) to work full time based in Ilford.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £49,839 per annum.

Main duties:

• To be responsible for complex cases and detailed assessments including, where appropriate, Child Protection Assessments.
• To assist the Manager, as required in aspects of the Team’s work including the allocation of work; maintaining, developing, and encouraging high professional standards; and supporting the supervision and development of individual staff.
• To keep up to date with good practice guidance, current legislation, Government initiatives and local polices and procedures with a view to playing a lead role in disseminating these within the team.
• To provide consolation, advice, and guidance to Team members on professional issues.
• To assist the Head of Service in developing and maintaining projects within agreed timetables.
• To represent the Manager or Head of Service at internal and external meetings where appropriate, and to act as Deputy to the Manager.
• To write complex reports and briefing papers on policy and operational issues for the Team Manager, Head of Service, Managing Director of the Children’s Trust and to participate in a range of meetings, case conferences or task forces, service, and project management groups.
• To offer professional advice and support to team members in carrying out their duties as enshrined in the Children Act 1989.
• To assist in ensuring that team members fulfil expectations in relation to the council’s statutory responsibilities, polices and standards and that the practice is anti-discriminatory.
• To assist in ensuring individual training needs are identified and appropriate training plans are developed for the team.

Requirements of this Experienced Senior Practitioner job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Continual professional development.
• Social Work England registered.
• Proof of past experience.

Contact:
This Experienced Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Global Healthcare Jobs takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Global Healthcare Jobs is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.